With an unsparing look at both Hamilton and Washington - and at lesser-known, equally determined frontier leaders such as Herman Husband and Hugh Henry Brackenridge - journalist and popular historian William Hogeland offers an insightful, fast-paced account of the remarkable characters who perpetrated this forgotten revolution, and those who suppressed it. In only a few years, those attacks snowballed into an organized regional movement dedicated to resisting the fledgling government's power and threatening secession, even civil war. In 1791, at the frontier headwaters of the Ohio River, gangs with blackened faces began to attack federal officials, beating and torturing the collectors who plagued them with the first federal tax ever laid on an American product - whiskey.
Unearthing a pungent segment of early American history long ignored by historians, William Hogeland brings to startling life the rebellion that decisively contributed to the establishment of federal authority. 1957.A gripping and provocative tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion pits President George Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton against angry, armed settlers across the Appalachians. Albert Gallatin, Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat. The Whiskey Rebellion, Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. The Whiskey Rebellion, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Frontier Rebels who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty. Whiskey Rebels The Story of a Frontier Uprising. Gallatin: A Voice of Moderation During the Whiskey Rebellion. To learn more about Albert Gallatin in the Whiskey Rebellion you may read the article Did you mostly answer that you were a REBEL, a MODERATE, or a FEDERALIST?
Today we still have many disagreements about governmental laws and policies, and how we should interpret the Constitution just as the rebels and federalists did in the Whiskey Rebellion. For Albert Gallatin, the Whiskey Rebellion helped propel his burgeoning political career.
It helped cement a strong national government, as well as the opposition to it. The Whiskey Rebellion was really the first major fight about how the new government should operate and how its economy would move forward. Nowadays it is hard for us to understand how fragile the new government was.
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